Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mather” in chapter 8 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays:

...ey usually replace the black skull-cap of earlier pictures, and in 1752 the tables had so far turned that a church-member in Newbury refused communion because the pastor wears a wigg. Yet Increase Mather thought they played no small part in producing the Boston Fire. Monstrous Periwigs, such as some of our church-members indulge in, which make them resemble the Locusts that came out of ye Bottomles...
Max. Freq. Min. Freq.
Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
Mather 142 36 18 0 0 user votes
Increase Mather 168 0 16 0 0 user votes
Cotton Mather 157 0 11 0 0 user votes
Richard Mather 112 0 4 0 0 user votes
C. Mather 102 0 0 0 0 user votes
I. Mather 54 0 0 0 0 user votes
Andrew E. Mather 27 0 3 0 0 user votes
S. W. Mather 16 0 2 0 0 user votes
Thomas Mather 12 0 0 0 0 user votes
Samuel Mather 10 0 0 0 0 user votes
Elias C. Mather 6 0 0 0 0 user votes
Nathaniel Mather 6 0 0 0 0 user votes
W. W. Mather 5 0 1 0 0 user votes
Joseph Mather 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
M. W. Mather 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
Mary Mather 4 0 2 0 0 user votes
William Loomis Mather 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
Frederick Mather 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
H. M. Mather 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
H. W. Mather 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Samuel T. Mather 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
T. S. Mather 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
A. T. W. Mather 1 0 1 0 0 user votes
Calista Mather 1 0 1 0 0 user votes
Frederick W. Mather 1 0 1 0 0 user votes
Iverson Mather 1 0 1 0 0 user votes

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